[Rockhounds] Collecting sites request / Clement Museum Show info

[Alan Goldstein]

Neal,

Check out the collecting locality list under the "Visitor Info" button at 
the Falls of the Ohio State Park website www.fallsoftheohio.org. It lists 13 
collecting sites in Indiana and Kentucky. We have three piles behind the 
Interpretive Center - Waldron shale (Atkins Quarry), Devonian fossils in 
residdual soil (Cooper Lane quarry), and fluorite, sphalerite, etc. from the 
Rosiclare (Illinois) mill. The quarries do not let in visitors and the 
Rosiclare site is now off-limits to collectors. If you go to southern 
Illinois, take the ferry at Cave in Rock to Marion, KY and visit the Clement 
Mineral Museum. You will need to contact them (beclement at kynet.biz) to find 
out if any dig sites are available and if the museum is open.

The 3rd annual Clement Museum Show and Dig will be held June 7 & 8. I 
certainly encourage anyone who can make it to visit the area that weekend. 
They have more collecting sites open than under normal weekend program 
schedules. They hope to have the Memphis fluorite mine dumps dug for the 
first time ever. I don't know if they'll run groups to the new celestine 
locality, but it is a possibility. I'll be there.

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Hazen" <batsondebelfry at yahoo.com>
To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:41 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Collecting sites request


> Hi folks,
>
> This elist is the one group I look forward to reading the most. The 
> members of this list have been very helpful to me on several occaisions, 
> and I can't thank you enough. Now I have another request. My wife and I 
> are going up to sourthern Indiana in two weeks to visit relatives. While 
> there, we will collect some fossils, but wonder if there is good 
> collecting for anything else in the southern portions of Indiana, 
> Illinois, Ohio?
>
> Neal Hazen
>
>
>
> "Some people learn through reading. A few others learn by observation. 
> Most of us have to pee on the electric fence for ourselves."
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